Corel Paint it! Touch: With this touch screen application artists of all ages can draw, paint and even turn photos into paintings using just their fingertips. Corel Paint it! Touch is available for both PC and Mac. It has 20 different types of artistic media that includes watercolor, oil, acrylic, crayon, chalk, spray paint etc. You can even add fairy dust, among many others, as an effect to your paintings. With Corel Paint it! Touch drawing and painting becomes more fun and easy as you can move, zoom, rotate, and drag your canvas using your fingertips right on the screen. Turning your photos into painting has never been easier. With as few as 3 mouse clicks or taps on the screen you can watch your photo magically turn into a painting. The RealBristle Technology implemented in the software gives your painting an authentic look.

These gestures include: swipe from side to side to browse photos; pinch to zoom; swivel two fingers to rotate or drag images, photo book pages and slider bars. With these touch screen applications you can edit photos, edit videos, make photo albums, burn DVDs, and playback DVDs. After you are done editing your photos or videos you can easily share them on different internet sites like Youtube, Facebook, Flickr or email them to you friends and family using Gmail from the program itself. Corel Digital Studio also allows you to send your photos to Corel’s printing service to get them professionally printed. If you have a TV tuner on your PC, DVD Factory can record TV feeds directly to DVD so that you can view a favorite program when it suits your schedule.

If you want a fun packed application for painting then you should try CyberLink YouPaint. This touch application gives you brushes, a color palette, pens, tracing paper, stamps and more for your entertainment. The application is optimized for touch screen computers.

Drawing Tools

You can select four different drawing tools which include, pencil, chalk, crayon, or marker. These tools can be adjusted to suit your needs and what you want to create with them. You’ll feel like you’re using these when you make your drawing. You get 60 different colors to work with so it’s like having a giant box of crayons at your disposal. You can create various lines with a different thickness too. This application is fun for kids too and you can draw and paint together with the program.

Creativity

Use the program to get creative with a library of tracing papers with animals, vehicles and more. Use your own photographs for tracing as well and creative original works with this touch drawing program. Use the paint bucket and painting tool as well as your color palette to make painting. You can erase everything if you don’t like it and just start all over again. You can sign up with the software and share your creations with others.
Use the image bloom to copy and paste images anywhere in the same image you’re working on for a swirl-like effect from different images. This makes it easy to make a full drawing with plenty of the same thing such as trees or flowers.
The program has a stamp feature where you can apply 76 different stamps to your artwork. Move and rotate the stamps to get different effects with ease. Use your own images to make your own stamps to sue in the program.

Print and Save

With this drawing program you can save everything and work on it later in your library. Use a landscape, portrait, color or greyscale feature to print out your work to share with others. Take your drawing and email it to friends and family directly from the program. Surprise a parent at work with a new drawing from a child.

Excellent Paint Program for Families

CyberLink YouPaint is an excellent painting and drawing touch program for families as it’s simple to use and you can do so much with it. This program is highly recommended if you want to draw and paint without the headaches of complicated software.

Since Microsoft hired the Rolling Stones for the product launch of Windows 95 to play the song Start Me Up 12 years ago do not be surprised if some Consumer Electronics vendor licenses a song from The Who with the title: Feel Me, Touch Me.

We have really reached the George Jetson age with touch input technology. As I create this entry I manipulate the screen using Apples Magic Pad. While it works great in Apples Mountain Lion, using virtualization technology I am delighted to report the multi point touchpad does well with Windows 8 as well.

And folks, that is just the beginning. On 6 September 2012 Amazon.com updated the Kindle family with an entire refresh of the Fire lineup. Yes, they also have improved there bi-tonal offerings as well.

Mere days from now Apple will do something stunning to the world with its iPhone 5. Certainly the holiday battle season for your hard-earned dollars in 2012 is shaping up.

The centerpiece of all this evolution/revolution comes down to two things. Battery-powered handheld computers and multitouch capacitance-based touchscreens.

The new Kindle Fires feature 10 point touch technology. And we’re not done yet.

Consider human development. A Homo sapien with a mere single year on the planet is not able to really speak and just learning to walk. However he/she is able to do one thing beyond soil the diapers. That is point with a finger.

Clearly it is the most intuitive methodology of communication we have as humans. Quickly disappearing off the planet is the old resistive technology. Capacitance driven touchscreens are becoming part of our daily lives.

While is always been a natural form of communication the technology has not been there for a satisfying user experience, until now.

As stated above, we’re not done yet. Coming out of the research and development labs into actual products the next step is tactile feedback. This means you will feel where you touched, when you touched it to confirm input.

Apple already has approved patents on this technology. I promise others are following as well.

It’s quite exciting to see touch technology moving from an AC powered computer to portable tablets while improving the user experience. Let’s see where this goes

This is probably the cheapest and fastest way to create your own multitouch table.

Materials:

cardboard box

piece of clear flat sturdy material (glass, plexiglas, …)

paper (almost any paper)

qebcam or video camera

computer

When fingers are placed on the surface, they create shadows. The webcam records the shadows and the image is sent to the touch software.

For this to work room must not be completly dark. The results will be best when the room lighting is even.

Developed by David Wallen, Christian Moore, Laurence Muller and NUIgroup Community. Visit http://sethsandler.com/multitouch/mtmini/ for more information and download the software.

Materials:

cardboard box

piece of clear flat sturdy material (glass, plexiglas, …)

paper (almost any paper)

webcam or video camera

computer

When fingers are placed on the surface, they create shadows. The webcam records the shadows and the image is sent to the touch software. For this to work room must not be completly dark. The results will be best when the room lighting is even.

Windows 7 is the first version of Windows to fully support multi-touch features. The interface is much more finger-friendly and so are the included touch screen applications, such as Paint. If you own a multitouch LCD monitor, you probably already have Windows 7 running on your computer. But to fully experience the magic of touch, you will want to install some additional touch screen software.

2. Corel Digital Studio 2010

Corel Digital Studio 2010 is a multimedia content organizer. Organize, view and edit photos, videos and music in one place using your fingers. In addition to burning them to DVDs or CDs Corel Digital Studio supprots uploading and sharing to Facebook, Flickr and YouTube.

Check out the video tour of Digital Studio 2010:

3. Corel Paint it! touch

MS Paint may give you the feel of fingerpainting. But for the true fingerpainting experience there is Corel Paint it! touch. Perfect for parents, kids and anyone who likes doodling and sketching. Corel Paint it! touch has a wide range of gesture support – move, zoom, flick, rotate, tap, drag and scroll—right on screen, using nothing but your fingertips. It also includes plenty of fun features such as realistic mixer pallete – a movable mixer palette, you can use to mix colors. I also supports different types of artistic media (such as oil, acrylic and spray paint) and various paper textures.

4. WinDVD Pro 2010

WinDVD Pro 2010 is the leading DVD player software for high-quality video playback. With fully enabled Windows 7 touch screen support, you can control playback, scene selections and browse media library

And the winner?

Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7, should be the first application, any touch screen monitor owner should download as it is completely free. Applications from Corel are also worth checking out.

Sadly, selection of good touch screen software is still quite poor. BumpTop is no longer available for download and Asus is making their software only bundled with their computers (read the Touch Gate software review). With the exception of a few giants, like Microsoft and Corel, no major companies seem to be interested in developing touch enabled software for the PC…

Fun at your fingertips! Specially designed for your touch screen PC, Corel Paint it! touch is a natural and fun way to draw, paint, sketch or even just doodle on your touch screen monitor. This digital painting software makes it easy for the whole family to get creative.

With a multimedia content organizer Corel Digital Studio 2010 you can organize, view and edit photos, videos and music, all in one place, using your fingers.

Note: This software will only run on Windows 7 machines that have touch-screen capabilities.